CONTENTS

CHAPTER IPAGE
How I Began[1]
CHAPTER II
My First Attempt on the Despatch[16]
CHAPTER III
The Banshee No. 1[33]
CHAPTER IV
The Banshee's First Run In[44]
CHAPTER V
Fort Fisher and Wilmington[55]
CHAPTER VI
The Rest of the Banshee No. 1.'s Career[70]
CHAPTER VII
Life at Nassau[86]
CHAPTER VIII
Our Fleet[101]
CHAPTER IX
Bermuda[115]
CHAPTER X
Experiences Ashore in Dixie's Land[131]
CHAPTER XI
Havana and Galveston[145]
CHAPTER XII
Blockades of the Past and the Future[166]
Index[177]